It's not a music style that's known for its use of vocabulary, but one man might have just changed our perception of hip-hop and rap. Matt Daniels, who, according to his website, is a designer, coder and a data scientist at Undercurrent in New York, ranked rappers and hip-hop artists by the depths of the vocabulary used in their lyrics. A few were even more rich in words than a couple of Shakespeare's works. Check out who earned the top ten spots on the list, as well as who ranked at the very bottom. We've also thrown in some notable artists and their rankings.

#1 - Aesop Rock7,392 unique words used

Daniels says: "When I first published this analysis, I excluded Aesop Rock, figuring he was too obscure. The Reddit hip hop community was in uproar, claiming Aesop would absolutely be #1. Sure enough, Aesop Rock is well-above every artist in my dataset and I was obliged to add him to the chart. In fact, his datapoint is so far to the right that he should be off the chart (I'm lazy and didn't adjust the scale)." less

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Shakespeare:

Again, for perspective, seven works of Shakespeare appear here on this list with 5,170 unique words. Yes, you got that right: Outkast used more unique words than the works of Shakespeare. (Everyone else on the remainder of this list ranked lower than Shakespeare.)

Daniels based his list off of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet,' 'Romeo and Juliet,' 'Othello,' 'Macbeth,' 'As You Like It,' 'Winter's Tale,' and 'Troilus and Cressida.'